Adequacy of collections in Malaysian agricultural libraries

Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 35-47

  Majid, Shaheen ^a   Anwar, Mumtaz Ali ^a   Eisenschitz, Tamara S ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agricultural libraries; Collection assessment; Library effectiveness; Malaysia

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748089641     PISSN: 13946234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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